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By Avery Lotz and Andrew Millman, CNN
Updated 3:49 PM ET, Tue July 26, 2022
A frame taken from the body worn camera of a of MPD Officer shows Mark Ponder armed with a long pole with red, white, and blue stripes.
(CNN)A federal judge sentenced a man who assaulted law enforcement officers with poles during the J****** 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol -- and continued to scuffle with officers even after being briefly detained that day -- to more than five years in prison on Tuesday.
Mark Ponder pleaded guilty in April to assaulting law enforcement and has been held without bond since March 2021. The 56-year-old Washington, DC, resident also was sentenced to three years of supervised release.
Grand jury testimony of Pence aides brings Justice Department J****** 6 probe into Trump's White House
Grand jury testimony of Pence aides brings Justice Department J****** 6 probe into Trump's White House
Ponder remained on Capitol grounds for nearly three hours on J****** 6. After being detained for attacking officers released earlier in the day amid the chaos, Ponder engaged in a second violent assault in one of the most brutal attacks between officers and r****rs that day.
He later told federal agents that police were "part of the problem" during the r**t.
Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, one of the US C*****l P****e officers that Ponder attacked, testified Tuesday at Ponder's sentencing committee.
"He didn't care whether I was a police officer or not. He didn't care I had a family or not," Gonell said.
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